“Man is deeply vulnerable when faced with overwhelming evil.
Instead of consolidating his energy to fight it,
he wastes valuable time and effort puzzling over it,
insisting it is not, cannot possibly be, what it seems.”

Editor’s Notes: As I write this I can imagine Bob Bowman saying “All right, I had enough of a tribute, now, let’s get to work to undo the threats to bomb Syria. The U.S. only got a glancing blow to stop them by the British Parliament, held back by the voting public and obvious illegal actions of the affair. Also, contrary to stated objectives, attacking this way will only set up another “gas” attack with the real incentive for those in the interests of the insurgency. Assad was winning with conventional weapons. Why would he cross such a line in that case? Obama says the strikes are to punish the Assad regime, but his actions show interest in continuing the war in Syria longer, and working toward Iran. This could be the official beginning or ending of world war 3. I will keep this updated.

“..one would wonder why Assad – who recently turned the tide
of war against the local US-backed rebels after retaking Aleppo
– would do this knowing well, what the reaction would be, and
sure enough the Syrian military denied responsibility and
said it would never use chemical weapons; it certainly
did not in the 2013 “false flag” sarin gas attack.”

Leaked document shows Blair preparing to act
as spin doctor for President Bush, who was
told ‘the UK will follow our lead’.

October, 2015 – The InterceptThe Drone PapersThe Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents
detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assas-
sination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.
The documents, provided by a whistleblower, offer an
unprecedented glimpse into Obama’s drone wars.

If the US and Russia are united in wanting to stop ISIL,
then Putin has the better approach by stabilizing and
working with the current government in Syria rather than
trying for regime change, which started the mess in the
first place with the misuse of the so-called Arab spring.

22 July, 2015 – ICH – Jonathan MarshallThe US Hand in the Syrian Mess‘Neocons and the mainstream U.S. media place all the blame
for the Syrian civil war on President Bashar al-Assad and
Iran, but there is another side of the story in which Syria’s
olive branches to the U.S. and Israel were spurned and areckless drive for “regime change” followed’..

AARON MATÉ: And, Vijay Prashad, these strikes in Syria
coming after six weeks of U.S. bombings inside of Iraq,
can you talk about what is happening there and the
effect of these attacks on ISIS inside Iraq?

VIJAY PRASHAD: Well, ISIS inside Iraq, as you saw,
from September onward, moved much of their
heavy machinery into Syria. I mean, that’s
been their strategy, is they’re not going to
wait around for the bombing, you know, in the
same way in Raqqa they had abandoned much of
the central part of the city. And so, what the
United states bombed in Raqqa were largely empty
buildings. You know, they have been moving their
heavy machinery around, their arms around. They
are currently, as I said, attacking in northern Syria.
So where the strikes happened were not exactly
where their main fighting forces are right now based.[Excerpt from transcript]

AMY GOODMAN: This is interesting also because
the spokesperson for the family of the other beheaded
journalist, Steven Sotloff,spoke to CNN on Wednesday,
Barak Barfi, and said Sotloff was sold to ISIL by
other so-called moderate Syrian rebels.

BARAK BARFI: For the first time, we can say Steven
was sold at the border. Steven’s name was on a list that
he had been responsible for the bombing of a hospital.
This was false. Activists spread his name around.

ANDERSON COOPER: He was sold at the border?

BARFI: Yes. We believe that the so-called moderate
rebels that people want our administration to support,
one of them sold him probably for something between
$25,000 and $50,000 to ISIS. And that was the
reason that he was captured.

“He’s right! Our wars of aggression have been
exceptionally unethical, illegal and stupid!
The whole foreign policy of seeking full
spectrum dominance and “policeman of
the world” (above the law) status is
exceptionally sick and won’t work.
Someone needs to tell Obama that his
exceptional pride goeth before a fall.”

This means that we may have another opportunity
to stress the importance of peace and nonviolence.
It sounds arrogant or misleading to express that in such
simple terms toward one who received the Nobel Peace
Award, which may be why there may be still some hope
left that Congress and/or Obama will awaken and come
to its senses or consensus for a diplomatic course
to stop the military-intel policies of U.S. and
Israel in the last 50 years. The tyranny
and deceptions must end.

“Deep within every one of us lies a natural
understanding of good and evil. That is why
one man can tell the truth convincingly…
but it takes the entire apparatus of the
state to peddle a lie, and propagate
that lie to new generations.”

Dark LegacyGeorge Bush and the Murder of John Kennedy“Provocative to say the least. Using materials familiar to researchers,Dark Legacy makes a series of tantalizing connections between the rich
and powerful to suggest that Kennedy was brought down by a vast web of
powerful conservatives and that George H.W.Bush was close to all of them.
Hankey invites viewers not only to draw their own conclusions but also
to check out his sources.” — Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times

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